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7=39WERLD 01 TY mo MlU G BT SOt*"t. VMkiahimm MAIN N T r-ra. At1CT. --...... t64 Nat. 3ma5 UincMECU e RAT= ST CAaIIa 0811y and dar..-....- eoo" S minty .........2ents VeW ieath W~TN AM UT MAZIr .............4 can" r ar~ ............. Dpr yew r at tb. ,a estema a& Wasatotr, D. CL as sene- amal nmatte. SUNDAY. MARcH 26. 1516. A Line 09 Cheer Each Day o' the Year. By JOHN KENDRICK BANOL Ftr priating of an original poer. writa dail1 tOr The Washin"Ig Herad. A PREFERENCE. I'd like to be a King, I would, For his high power to work for good, But just to sit upon a throne ilnd count possessions all my own, And use my strength and all my pelf But for the glory of myself, In pompous pageantry and show, Regardless of all human woe WVcll truly, I would rather be ME! The Kaiser is bestowing the order Pour le Merite upon his greatest herocs, which may in spire the French to get out writs of injunction or replevin. \\ ashington ire engines bave been taken in action for the mosics. They arc pictty speedy, but they can't go as fast as they will travel across the screen. Judging by his movements as reported by the war correspondents Villa mut either have in sented the game "pigs in clover" or liae studied it very closely. Of course, if Mexico is not to be discussed Congress can't make provision to meet emergen cies. If the lid blows off it will become a proper subject for debate, but then it will be too late. Readers of interviews with Col. Roosevelt must be inipressed by the frequency with which the conversation leads up to mentioni of the titi, of the Colonel's new book, even if they don't buy it. Uncle Joe Cannon w%as able to di-cosei liis Wame recorded by that earliest United States ce. mis and spelled in six different ways; and conic to think of it, a more representative American would be hard to find. Those who were unable to di'cover the iotise for the submarine attack on the Channel steaiicr Sussex, were doubtless enlightened by the cable dispatches stating that of the 380 passengers .70 were women and children. House Deuiocrats held a caucus on legisla tion, at which the President's own program was approved. Unless a little more speed is de veloped the next formality connected with the legislative program will be an autopsy. Aniong Mexico's many attractions as a pleas tire resort appears to be the climate. After being scorched by the blazing sun during nine days of marching in the desert the American troops are now reported to be enveloped in snow and sleet. Lobsters are quoted at the highest price ever known in New England, and "boisterous weather" is assigned as the reason. It is possible that boisterous conditions on Broadway, following the return of prosperity, have something to do with it. The army is pitiably short of aeroplanes. It doesn't require a great deal of timie or money to construct then but we ha en't heard of work being started on any new ones since the need of them was demonstrated by the Mexican expedi tion. Senator James Hamilton Lewis would brand Americans who furnish aid to Villa as guilty of actual treason. Existing statutes no doubt cover such cases fully, and the thing is not to brand the guilty ones, but to inflict the full penalty of the law upon them. Uncle Joe Cannon has diselosed the fact that thme United States census of 1790 did not record the name of Roosevelt. but it is more than likely that the Colonel's progenitors were away on a hunting or exploring expedition when the census man came around. In refusing to disarm their merchantmen upon the condition that German submarines refrain from sinking them without warning the allies are merely declining to arrange conditions so that the Teutonic hunting expeditions shall be all ease and pleasure and no danger. Two postal officials, who had been in the serv ice, one twenty-eight years and the other twenty, were dismissed by telegraph without reason being aigned. It ames seem that instead of using the wire the Postoffice Department should have given them the sack in the regular way. I. one respect the allies exhibit far more discretion than the Washington administration. They frnl admit that they put no faith in German pledges with reference to submarine warfare, while we are still falling for them, in spt epst enperiencs and what is going on evryby at peggmat. ladisputabe evidence of the eondliens of absw lute poverty under which thousands of governa ment employes in the lower grades of the clas sifed civil service exist was submitted to a com mittee of the House of Representatlives last week, and with the facts in its possession it is not to be believed that Congress will adjourn the present session without enacting legislation to wipe out what amounts to a national disgrace. Many for mer Congresses have neglected to take a step in the direction of doing justice to the civil service employes, so it has fallen to Represent ative Nolan, of California, comparatively a new comer, to draft and introduce a bill designed to afford them immediate relief. His measure' is not ideal, but it is admirable in one respect; it cuts the red tape, discounts-the interminable delay that must necessarily ensue if such legis lation is entrusted toothe usual process; and if it succeeds, as it should, it will put money into the homes of needy workers with the utmost dispatch. It was through the hearing given by a com mittee on Mr. Nolan's bill that really startling conditions of injustice and poverty existing in Washington were disclosed. From the gravedig ger, struggling to keep a family of four alive on the $4o a month the government pays him, to the man doing scientific work for $900 a year, who lost his home and spent the money he saved while serving in the United States army for living expenses while employed in the civil service, the story of the government's shame is unvarying. The man who has worked twelve years for $2 a day and whose family has not scen the inside of a theater in seven years and rarely goes even to a moving-picture exhibition is only one of thousands. This scandal- of the Capital having been ex posed to the world Congress cannot permit it to continue, and a quick and effective remedy is offered in the Nolan bill, which provides for a minimum government wage of $3 a day and a horizontal increase of 2o per cent of all salaries in the classified civil service. It is intimated that an effort will be made to eliminate the pro vision for a general increase, but this should be steadfastly resisted by friends of those thou sands of employes whose compensation is not more than $aooo a year and whose living condi tions are but little better than those of the gravedigger. The adoption of a minimum wage alone could only defer the prospect of relief for the majority, because members of Congress would be only too quick to felicitate themselves on hav ing done their full duty to the whole body of government employes for years to come. The horizontal increase is not generous, but it is just and should be granted in the absence of any indications that a more scientific adjustment will be made in the immediate future. The solution is no nearer perfect than the minimum wage provision, but together they provide a prompt remedy that is both feasible and commendable for a shocking evil, for which former Congresses are wAholly to blame. But already obstacles calculated to delay if not defeat the Nolan bill at this session are appearing, one of them in the form of a resolu tion appropriating $6,000 for an inquiry into the cost of living in Washington. If the Nolan bill awaits the result of such an investigation the prospects of its passage will be reduced. There is not the slightest need of such an investigation. Members of Congress know from their own actual experience of living in Washington what the cost is; it is not necessary to tell them that families cannot be supported in the Capital in decent comfort on $io or $12 a week. The author of the resolution, Mr. Keating, must realize the w ide gap between the cost of living and the wage the government pays employes in the lower grades of the civil service. It would seem that he might conscientiously consent to the shelving of his resolution and combine his energies with those of a sufficient number of members who are convinced of the justice of the provisions of the Nolan bill to insure its early passage. The en tire country has surely been aroused by these recent revelations in Washington, and it is look ing to Congress for the redress of grievous wrongs thousands of faithful workers are suffer ing at the hands of a neglectful government. The President's Warning. President Wilson's warning to the people of the United States not to give credence to sensa tional and disturbing rumors originating on the Mexican border gives further evidence of the earnest desire of the administration to placate Carranza and his followers. By the President's own former proclamation and by resolution ol Congress the full purpose of Gen. Pershing's ex pedition was made plain to the de facto govern mient and its adherents. No possible ground was left for the remotest suspicion on either side of the border of a purpose of aggression on our part. The necessity for yesterday's warning to the people of the United States, is therefore not ap parent, nor can any effect be foreseen for it. Ii it is argued that it may tend to allay in this coun try any apprehension for the safety of our soldiers that may have been caused by reports that Car. ranza's forces are joining fortunes with Villa, it may yet be argued with equal force that it will have the opposite effect. The opinions of the Agnerican people concerning the situation in Mex ico will hardly exert an influence in that country, nor is there anything in the President's statement calculated to change those opinions. Considering all the information in possession of the people generally, their concls~ion will naturally be that the President, having requested the news associations to refrain from publishing matter calculated to inspire hostility in Mexico, might well have stopped there, since the general public can be of very little help to him in his anxious endeavors to avoid irritating the Car ranza faction. It is true, however, that the people hitherto have not been deeply impressed with the necessity for ensmaenao and 4ed tege d W i je e icam sesasIemess; Ad the President's statanaut may bring realiation that the situation is geave than they had suspected, though no opportunity is presented to them to aid in the solution. 87 JON 15. NARa. The other day I was seized with a fearful toothache. Everything in life but that toothache ceased to have any importance in my mind. I could'think of nothing else. On my way down to the dentist I passed many people in the street. Not one of them seemed to have toothache. They walked easily and quietly. instead of rushing in agony, as I was doing. I envied them. And I wondered why I should be singled out for this ordeal. In the dentist's chair there was even worse suffering. I looked helplessly at the ceiling and I thought of the time when I didn't have toothache. Why hadn't I appreciated my good fortune? How was it possible that for any stretch of time I had been unaware of the blessing of not having a toothache? Presently the pain began to subside. In a half hour it left me. I relaxed. I took a deep breath. I was free, at peace. The luxury of that peace! Then I knew that I was enjoying one of the perquisites of pain, perhaps its most wonderful perquisite. All sufferers from pain know this wonderful perquisite. For all sufferers have periods of immunity from pain. These come from one of the wise provisions of nature. It is-impossible for any human being always to be in pain. If the pain does not leave the patient, the patient leaves the pain. That is, the mind of the patient becomes dulled to the pain. ' In such periods of relief, sufferers from in tense and long continued pain must have mo ments of supreme happiness, of exaltation. Because they have paid so dear, they receive the richest reward. There are great sufferers who actually make friends with pain. In their pain they find a kind of companion ship. When the pain goes they actually feel a loss. With them, the pain is in itself a perquisite. And it is a perquisite achieved wholly through character, through fortitude, self-forgetfulness. I recently met a trained nurse, a highly in telligent woman, who told me of experiences with her patients that seemed not without humor. They were surprising to me. Perhaps to you they will be familiar. Many people actually enjoy being sick, even wben they suffer pain. They enjoy the perquisites that go with sickness, being the center of in terest, being fussed over, having everything regu lated to suit them and their needs, real or im aginary. So much do they enjoy being sick, or rather being treated as sick, that even when they are recovering they like to prolong the period of con valescence. In some cases, to appear worse off than they really are, patients will take the ther mometer used by the nurse and hold it against the hot water bag! The inexperienced nurses become terrified. Often they will actually telephone for the doctor. The concern and excitement the patient en joys, too. It is, of course, generally recognized that con valescence is a delightful period. It is like the sense of relief from toothache extended over days or over weeks or months. The whole world becomes beautiful. Members of families, given to preying on one another, cease to prey on the afflicted. They may even forbear all strife for a long interval. The remote chance of death makes the family reflect on the good qualities of the threatened one and makes them realize their love. It even makes them forget bad qualities and create imaginary good qualities. Relatives and friends are kinder, more sym pathetic, much more interested. In convalescence there is a multitude of per quisites. They give to living a delight such as we usually associate with our idea of heaven. Children have a keen appreciation of the per quisites of suffering. Often they will feign suf fering for the sake of securing those perquisites, or pretend that they have received some distress img mnjury. It is amusing to see them 'acting under these circumstances. Often they will have moments of forgetfulness and betray that they are acting. With many people, oftener with women than with men, a severe illness, with its accompani ment of suffering, becomes one of the most beau tiful and inspiring of memories. I know a woman who, for years, was incapaci tated by illness. Her return to health was almost like rising from the grave. And though it took place many years ago it has left its traces. She still has the wonderful gentleness and patience of those used to moving softly through the days. It is as if her experience had given life a strange and beautiful meaning for her, as if it had lifted her beyond the common things and the common ways. . , Here is the most precious perquisite of pain. If nobly borne, it relnes and beautifies and exalts the character. UtI~hk a Wast. Preduct. A Vermont newspaper comes to this office daily bound in a page -of the Congressional Record. This thrifty thought may prove catch ing. It establishes a nield of usefulness for a much-criticised publication, as well as a supply 1Of wrDig paner that never -fmita -4niainel The Herides Army i La t Aw Y.st Cmoete ONes o inWa By 5. a. JOHS. Although no offidal report has been received at the War Department of the engagement between the Thirteenth Cavalry and Villa bandits at Columbus, N. Mex.. which brought about the puni tive expedition, no credence Is given to the reports that the camp was not prop Orly guarded. Under the conditions gov erning the troops guarding the border it would have been posible at any time for the Mexican bandits to surprise a garri sen or a comnand of troops. Even from the western frontier in the European war there daily accounts are appearing in the papers of surprise attacks by both bel ligereats. If under the war conditions of Europe there are surprise attacks how can American troops on the Mexican bor der be expected to prevent them Is the question that is frequently asked at the War Department. The instructions to commanding officers from the War Department require them to walt until they were attacked by the Mexican forces. They were not per mitted to interfere with the movement of Mexicans across the border nor to pre vent any of the Mexican leaders from mnobilIsig a threatening force on the Mexican side. While the Mexican troops were not permitted to come across in a body, they could cross the line in small parties and gather on the American side. The report that Col. Slocum and the of feers at New Mexico had been warned did not justify them in preparing for an attack. Officers now on duty at Wash ington who have served on the border declare that they were warned almost daily of approaching attacks by Mexican bandits. If they had paid attention to these warnings the troops would be con stantly under arms awaiting an attack. Doubtlessly the officers of the Thirteenth Cavalry if they had received a warning assumed that It was not any more serious than hundreds of other rumors that had come to them. The dispatches in the daily papers as to engagements and the movements of Carrana and Villa since the punitive expedition has been launched give an Idea of the connliefing rumors that have constantly been afnoat along the border. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, who will appear before the Hous committee Monday it Is un derstood Intends to discuss at length the department's personnel bill. From the beginning the Assistant Secretary has taken a deep interest in this legis lation. For this reason Secretary Daniels appointed the Assistant Secre tary chairman of the personnel board and he has devoted much of lis time to consideration of the subject. Mr. Roosevelt Is a staunch advocate of promotion by selection. ie will doubtlessly take occasion to answer some of the testimony that lia been given to the committee against the proposition. The Assistant Secretary will probably take up the question of the cost of the provisions of the personnel bill and his testimony will amount to the opening of the hearings on the bill. After the hlouse Committee reports out the appropriation bill it will take up the personnel legislation. a a a 0 Even in heavy seas the new torpedo boat destroyer Tucker met her contract speed requirements of twenty-nine and a half knots on her four full hour run. Her fastest run on this test was 29.93 knots an hour. During the standardixation trial the Tucker off the Maine coast made a mile at the rate of 30.84 knots an hour which is more than a knot in excess of her contract requirements. The average for five top speed runs was a1.31 knots. On her fastest mile th' Tucker pro pellers made 617 revolutions and the engines were developing horsepower itn excess of 17,600n. 5 5 5 5 The United States torpedo destroyer Rowan, nanied after Vice Admiral Stephen C. Rowan. has been launched from the yard of the Fore Itiver Ship building Corporation at Quincy. Mass. Miss Louise McLean Ayers. of Cincin nati. performed the traditional care mony of naming the vessel. The Row an is a sister ship of the destroyer Sampson which was recently launched from the same yard. Among the offIcers w ho registered at the War Department yesterday were Capt. H. J. Nicholas, Medical Corps; Capt. It. J. Kerrick, Coast Ar tillery, and Lieut. A. H. Erck, Fifth Infantry. District Signal Corps. last Thursday night fifty members of the Signal Corps Company. District Na tional Guard, reported for drill and were given a fifteen-minute section and platoon drill before settling down to class work. M. S. E. Lansford reports a class of fifteen receiving instruction in radio telegraphy. Three new men filled out application blanks, and will report for physical examination on Friday evening. Hugh J. O'Neale, the latest recruit, was sworn in Friday night. The installation of the new pool table proved a drawing card, and the men are coming down every evening In the week now. Non-commissioned officers have been detailed In charge of quarters, and the armory will be open every night in the week from now on. The rifle and pistol range at the First Street Armory is nearly completed, and practice will be commenced tomorrow evening. Capt. Terry is hoping that the outfit will be called out for active service, and practically everything is ready. He says that he can have the company under canvas at Fort Myer within six hours after receiving orders to move. The detailing of Capt. Stephenson, of the Medical Corps, to conduct physical examinations of recruits at the First Street Armory on Friday nights has proven a big help to the organIsations quartered In that buIlding. The campaign for recruIts In the radio company is progressing in a most satis factory manner, and there Is no doubt in- Capt. Terry's mind that the required number will he enlisted by the time set for mustering the new company Into the service. MorningSmles. Mistress-Bridget, I told you twice to have mufins for breakfast. Have you no intellect? Bridget-No, mum; there's none in the house.-Christian Register. "When I said my prayers last night didn't you hear me ask God to make me a good boy ?" ''Yes. Tommy. I did." "Well; He ain't done it.'-'Sydney (Aust.) Bulletin. Her Husband-Do you know, dear, that I found my first gray hair this morning? His Wife-Oh, give it to me. John, and Ill keep it as a souvenir to remember you by. Her Husband--What's the matter with me keeping It to remember you by?' Indianapolis Star. He (brutally)--Wom~Eln have no sense of humor, anyhow. She (pointedly)--Oh. yes, they have. The reason they don't laugh at the funny things they see is because they klon't want to hagrt he, por things' teelings. ind Navy DeprUtment I Service and Permoel Plihed -- AM fILM ea of e ...,; I ...st 4, ...te111 Lieut. Chares B. Meyer, Oheet Art~hary Ca. LiCut. 'ol. ceoge eamu my, Oroafae Ds, p=atmet. or ee of is e m aet5, will viat reendead. Mesa.. M oeiI buime Pertaining to the opsatism of the odanm D.e By direction of the Pruddeet. cuams Le0t. C)ra It. htreet. U. B. A.. rti.ed upa his own epa)Sation i6 daied, ider the pieueaimo of the art of Compass apseesd Apci 21 M. s psofeor Of MlMtay Seesses and tactles at the "a Dis. Army Md MaVy Acadsmy, Pae* Bach. Cal. Uecod aeu. Other L Spiller. Coas Artineri. Corps. I fetleved ftrn a-dmmet to the Ninetleth (Ompany and placed se the -eaime-d sot. Te folatwin-named efis s of the lsial Corse will puseed to Feet Sam Rostem. Te.. for - "f0mat to tempoary duty; Capt. HbeMrt L. Evans, Catt. Johs 5. Cbristian. Maj. Albert C. Dalton, Quartmaiter Ons. now onl leave of eaeenes at a.lemato,. Te., win proceed to rt Sm Houston. TaM. end report in ptnos to the eesammding gemela). Southern tDepartmeot. for aaignment to temporary duty as assistant to the quartermaster at that depart meet. Capt. William U. Clopitn. Jr.. Quatersier Corps. will proced without dslay to El Paso, Tee.. for teapoar3 duty in charg of an esainary re eamt, depot to be eatabliahed at that point. .1...e of atbence of fiftees dae is sasted Col. to"el r. Allen. Onat Artllew Corps. A board of offinest is appointed to meet at the cail of the predideat theref at Washington Bar. reek.. D. 4', for the eamoinatlon of such par eOt a ma, be authorised to appear befoae it to determie their Stasae for apgidtment as -haplain in the amy. Maj. Albert E. Waldroo. Corts of Enelarer,; Maj. All. W. WIllimna. Medical Carpe: Capt. John N, Hodreea Corpa of liaginers; Clhaplaln John K. Rochford. theat Artillery rps; PIrt l.icut. James W. Hart, Medical Reserve 'rps. The ionor meenbre of the board other tha a medical fflicer -will act as recorder 0k, maucrh 't paragraph 16. t4pecal Orae. N.. g. IMarch 1. l6. War Drtnt. as direct. Cat. I~ortn t. Holrnok. Fourth Ctralry. detailed un the QuartrvnateGr (-eTr, to take effect Mareb . 196. Uo 'ereIt to the comarmatding officer. FIrt Rile. Katn. for duty as asaietant to the qua. temeater. Is amnded w> a. to direct Capt. hml besk upon arrival at Fo'rt Rile3 to report is per een to the comnmanding oflear of that poet and by letter to the comumanding officer. Central D prtmeet,. for andgiment to dot, as quartermaater arid in charge of the School for Bahkra and 001,1. and in addition to those duties to sume chars. rder the intrsetioa of the Quaartermastr Genem of the art of conntuctnn work at Fort jIe,. eliev.ng I apt. Yred-ick J. Henman. Quarter. us-ter Cot., of those dwties. 0111t. .illiam L. la-e. Quarternaster Corp. or.arslr . a assigned to the Tenth Clrry'. to take tact la-r-h M. 19)6. lIrst ieut. Byron Q Jones. aviation officer lignal M. ,ill proceed fense Bneten. Mat".. t. Mo Yjrk t'yty and Plainield. N. j . for the IteTa of inapecting aerTplants and motors. Cart Irank N. 'hilton. Medical Corps. I. d, tailed as a member of the board of nflriwas at Jeffere"It Barracks. to , appointed In paragratth 5l. itieral ordere. No. :6. War Deartmest. Jan', er . I96. vice Capt. William A. Wak-hne, Medical t-rpa. bet rely-ed. Mai Harr A. Irohaeuser. U. 8. A.. tired. "ith hi. conent is aaigerd to artive duty aid detailed aa ahing Quartermaster. He wIl preeed to Fort FAhan Allen. vt.. and take charge of the pnserty and funds ertaining to the Qirnertmaiter IorT. at that pIN. relieving tapt Jame, U. RPur rirgeha. Quartermater Co#rps, who upoe being thr relheved will proied with the West practicabir delay to KanIas t-itY Mo.. and tepart au lewm to ()mt. 'lade E. Hawkins. Quatermiater trps. fe dutt as his asiaatant pentaling t. the pur firans of horses ."td eies f-r the am3 Each of the following-narmed once, of the Medical Corl will trooseA at rnow to the place stp-eied after his amoe and retoot b; toerapn to th. mmatmarin eeral. nthern iepartmnt. ftr assigeuncnt to teaporary duty .th the or ganati or oIndaated Cai4. Harr- G. Humphreys. t"ranvIlle. Te . Fourth Infant ate Cait. William A Shield. Btroneeitlle. Tex.. Third Cavalry: qat. Willia M. Start. HarHingen, T.. Field Hnl Pital. No "; Capt. Jesse I. Harras Harlingen. T.. Fiel l- rtal No. 5. Capt Ertcand %( Talbott. Harlingen. ea,.. Sthm Cavalr-: ti"t, i a-I 1 1 'uster. laaton. Tet.. Twenty-eg~tuh ltfatr-: Casj. Robert W. Kerr. Phrt Clark. Tes.. F-steenth conal: I'at. Wiissam X. BartaL. Ffrle Pats. T,.. tle"rnteth ifantrt; 1iLt J...m I Ym. F.4 P.. T r.. herenth infantrT; Ita. Craig It. S,-r. 1.... 1"19-t Alir... slighteith Infa-tr%; Maj). C 1a- .J. Bartlet. bgi Arta., T.-eny- seonil intani ; Capt. Louera I. Herwod, lr-ltbw. N. Me. Twelfth Cavil.r. Maj. James 1. lriens. El 1-so. Te.. Twentieth Infantry; Cat. 'Trna J Flynt. Nogate. Art. Twelfth Infatntc; Cat. Williamt B. Miaster. Nogalqe. Art... Twelfth linfantry: Capt. George F. Parisaem 5,1 Pasro. Ti-.. Toeotnithird Infante: Iapt. Georrg H. Scott. Fl Paw. Te-.. Touty-third nfantry; 1.itt. (l. Paul '. Stranh. Pbrt BlRi. Te,. base IrOltal; Maj. William L. Kelir, Font Bl.. Tex.. base hospital. Capt. Joseph P. Siler. Medical kinetl 'a re lieved from duty at the Army Medical ;hoot, this city. and will proceed to Fort sam Hoystoa. Tex.. and rep-t i1 erson to the ownmuarnding officer d that post for duty at the department laboratory. The following-naamed ofdflors of the Medical Re serve Orls are releved from duty at the Army Medical School. this city. to take ect upon the coampletiona of their eamintation ior al-pAintment in the Medical Corp. of the Army. and will then Prtced to Harlington. Te. for neigoment te duty with Ambulance Compalsa No. 5: Firs Lieat. Joseph L. Farden. Flrst lieUt Charlea G. Hutter. NAVAL ORDERS. MOVEIMLNTS OF VMESELS Beale arrived at Philadelphia. March -4: (bester miled for Port. Graode. Cape Verde Islanda. March 3I; Cyclops aailed for Norfolk. Mardr 4; Denver wailed for Coritto. March 2; Jason arrived at Guaantanamoo. March 2; Julpiter siled tor t;uan tanamo. March L: K rtucky arrird off Tampico Bar, laarh '1. Monaghan arrivred at Key West. March 21; Nero mailed for 0an Diego. Mareb k North Carolina arrived at Guitantaamo. Mar-b -: Penamook arrived at Boston. March 21: Potomac arrived at Alminte Bay. March 5; Troneme@ arrived at Rio de Janeiro. March 11; Tcv-y arrived at Key West, March 2. NOTES. The Vnlean, now at the Norfolk yard. will leave Hampton Hoads for Kest West and Mtun about the 12th proelmo. The Hancock. which left Philadelphia abr-t the 1th for Key Wet. has been ordered by radio to precead to Galveston. The following is the itinerary Of the Biringham. en route north from Guantaamno; Arrve at Key Wret. April 5: leave Key West, April 1: ar,,ie New York. April 13; leave New Yort. April 15; arrive Beatn yard, April S. ORDERA T" OFFICERS. IUeut. (liior itadel John Wilbur, to Salet s enginee' ofice. Endin Ralph Kiely. to rveetoig ship at Phila delphia, coaneetiorn ore. of Oklahana and duty on boardl when roansiofed. Erasgne 1t. D. Tiadale. B. F. Perry. and C. Hi. Mlcoum, to Nevada. Enrign 1.. 8. tewis. to tempoorary ditty retirag ahip at Phtiladelphia, connoectioni crew of Oklahaoma antd on hoard when commaissloned. Ensiha laaac idlceabach, to Nevada. MrARINE CORPS. Capt. S. W. Mogan. ommiaiiaed from December l7, ISI5. Firat ieuat. R. E. Memeaenith. enrmissioned from October l5, 1915. Firt Lietnt. John DIatn, to marine barracks, Norfolk. Fleet Lieuat. R. S. Uiger, to navy eammauic a thon, Peneacola, duty connectin aeraia..th-. Lenten Mission Ends Tonight The Lenten Preaching Mision. COn ducted in Episcopal churches of the Weashington diocese during the Iaai two weeks, will be concluded with the service tonight. The milssion has beer1 conducted throughout the United States and Canada by Episcopal churches. The mision haa had marked influence in the various parishes. ebrew Social Club Plan DanceG The Social Club of the Hebrew Home for the Aged will hold a box parts and dance on Tuesday evening. April 11. at Carroll Institute. 916 Tentk street northwest. The committee Ir charge consists of S. Hiller, chairman Mias M. Lewis, Mien B. Applestein Miss S. -Malinsky. and C. Lemler. The club also will hold a Straw ride ic Great Falls in the early part of Mayo Elephants have been put to work In Englasd. Horses are scarce, due to the great demand for war horses, but a Sheffneld firm broke the horee famine by hiring a retired elephant from a circus. wb~ch pulls as mnuch as five THE OPE In Which Numerous Readen Views on Cu Editer of The Washington Herald: Rev. Dr. Ryan. of the Catholic Univer etty. said before the Monday Evening Club that a working girl cannot live decently on les than 66 a week. How about a working man support ing a wife and four children on $7.94 a week and working on Sunday to earn this much? You ask in the name of God and the humanity of the twentieth century what hall-bound corporation or busi noes firm in the District dare pay such a wage characterised by President Wilson at "pitiful dole' The United States government in partnership with the District of Co lumbia. It Is the weekly pay of four hun dred "white wings" sweeping the streets of the National Capital. If our people who have personal ac quaintance and stasding with mem bers of Congress *ould only realise whdt a great service they could ren der the charitable organisations of our city engaged as they are in noble and self-sacrificing work, supplementing the scanty wages paid by the govern ment, the chief offender in the low wage scale. and speak up and speak unoasingly I am sure that Congress would respond and treat these people fairly and honestly. Wake up and get busy, Monday Evening Club. WILLIAM McK. CLAYTON Defense of Polieesen. Editor of the Washington Hersld: An astounding situation has arisen. An of ficer of the Metropolitan Police force. charged with an infraction of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia. is about to be represented in a court of this District hy an oficer of the Dis trict of rolumbia in the discharge of his official duties: Presumably, the people of the Itatrict of Vo'lumbia pay their taxes for the pur pose (among other thingsi of hiring of ficials to prosecute persons accused of crime. and. no far as appears by the statutea the office of public defender has not vet been legally created for this District. If the taxpayers' money is to be expended for the defense of acused persons. why should any discrimination he made' Why should accused persons who happen not to be policemen be often times *hliygd to trust their liberty to the efforts of a fledgling lawyer. appoint ed by the court to defend them and working without compensation. when. had the accused been an offl'er of the police force. he might have been rep resented by the able and well-paid coun sel for the District of Columbia? Washington policemen. taking them by and large. are a fine. upetanding, law abiding set of men. but, unfortunately. within the past year several of them have been parties defendant in the crim inal courts. and it is worthy of note that they retained counsel for their de fense. just as any other citizens would have done under the circumstances. What the taxpayers of the District of Columbia demand to krow. and shat they are entitled to be t-ld. is why were some accused poliem.u obliged to pay their counsel fees wlen the attorney for another one is paid for h the peo pie whose law he is harged with hav ing broken? WASHIINGTONIAN. The Meaning of Charity." Editor of the Washington li-ral'j Se. ing . tegular subscriber to your valuable paper I take great pleasure in reading its pages. and gain a vast deal of useful information therefrom. I enjoy esp.cl ally the writings from the pen of Mr John D. Rarry. He displays reat prog ress in his thought. and I %as mu< h interested in his writing of Mqrch :P under the heading "Making a Ulving." The subject was well handled. all the pointa well taken, and I do not wish to presume to criticise so able a writer. but there is just one thing I soild like to speak of: Mr. Barry, sp--akm;;g of charity, says. "The name of charity we Ishall some day dignify with a less offen sive name." I would like to say that when it is more generally understod that the word charity is synonomout with love, and that it is not onl) an attribute of God. but God Himself ifor are we not told in hIoly Writ that -God is Love?") When this is understood then will the word charity be robbed of the harrowing and disagreeable thought as sociated with it. In the thirteenth chapter of St. Paul Epistle to the Corinthians he tells us the real meaning of charity. What peop.l need. if I may be permitted to voice my opinion on the subject. is not that th word charity be given another name. but that those giving and those recelvin;;. b educated spiritually that they may know what charity really is. Mr. Barry right fully says: "Then will we see that it pays to give everyone a chance." Broth erly love is the keynote of charit. MARY R. DICKENS. Schoole as Forums. Editor of The Washington Herald In the Open Forum, March 19. 1 find an article: "Sunday Meetings -n Schools. by a Mr. Knott. A few Sundays paut a sermon was preached on the same sub ject by a popular minister. Both Con demn the use of public school houses by the citizens on the Sabbath. Now it does seem as If the people ought to be allowed to hold meetings in their own houses. Didn't they build them-end don't they pay the tax to keep them ur There have been other articles pro And con on the same subject. What is the matter with the people anyway? Ar, we retrogr-ading? Does the mister olje"t because people would rather go to th' forum than to hear him preach. The other man seems to be afrted the Sal bath will be desecrated. Wasn't the Sal tlath made for man' How are we goingf to be sure it is the "true light" if we never allow oureelv-es to let it shIne Then along come the 'authordties" and propose to allow ten of the school houses for forums. How about the others? Don't they need sny? That re minds me of the man who wanted to have his dogs tail ahort. Hec thought by cutting a little piece of it at a time i wouldn't hurt the dog so much. It was just the same when the fre, school system was being introduced. Lts of people fought against it. I knew a few men who wranted to shoot their neigh bore because they advocated free schools. If the subject of free schools was ui nlow would these same kiwkers Ught against it? Come--let us be reasonabie I once had as neighbor a manl who was such a strick observer of the Sabbath that he wouldn't shoot a hawk on Sunday lit took his best hen. His wife died, and he buried her on Bunday so that he could go to work on Monday. N EWCOMER. Peo-as and Referendum. Editor of The Washington Herald Since there is coming up the question as to who is "Bloes" In Washington, witl reference to the "Open Forum" matter why not get together as citixens and set tie it? For one, I believe from what have seen of the people of this city that they can be trusted with affairs that worl for the betterument of it. and I am read: that they--the people-shall be given the power to-y- o Tesame argument holds with refer ence to this referendumi proposition Make it possible for those residing ir the city to vote as they desire withoul sacr18ing this'r tht to vote in theti haane State. gma=he te wonem a votn N FORUM$ i of The Herald Give Their rrent Topics. IS this matter as well as the inen. and I feel that we can trast the people While I am writing on this line iet me euggest that it may be time for a new bill to be set in motion in reference ic this entire temperance matter. My su gestion in this, that the man who car o do It. draw up a bill in which the Dig triet shall be districted on an equitable basis, and that the pespte in the said di tricts shall ha.e the right by vote it SKy whether they will have the busin-er that proposes to cewt into mid section among them. When this vote is takr the Excise Board would know what it wanted and could be go' erlnel aei, ord ingly. HERMAN "Bet. Bemr a Niasraaatto.. Editor of The Washington ierald The following from your paper is a mf, translation: "The heaviest German fIh was concentrated in the region of Rir. Bourru 4Hangmat-s wood, and aroun Montzevllle. according to the Frensch r, port. "This forest of sinister name is about 5 mie and a half mouth of Dead Man Hfill * The word hvurru used a an adjciv-r ha- several meanings, but none of the,, can be rendered into English by the wore "hangman " In thi. vase Bo i Bour'. prohabl rmt-an Rog.c i'or Phantvor wood Th. Engirh cord hangman Is i, French hourreau SbeIt-a wIshes for the suv sp of The Jierald J . ikN-A i. terrert hrmaiar Editor of The waehInt-, Ileraild rot-ed the f-llowing on ,our editoria Pago: "Air- dirng -. f' Ital. of ie Asaociat ed ('harit';-. vher- are lore de'ertei v-es in N arrm '.i an eier befior %% r A imhnei - hehie that the pr ripal reavisre fi. Ii r diti i of affAiri naoy he I Vvated in I-' ri-et at- fine af irnoon 'or It you ar, itn om iurn. A, as' - den e th- o- . I"ev. A - n , ifo r t. .IM ao men AnI tet .... P-jimr f1 r to %indv-aIt tiei: ..i - t._, Ihat i, mut attld a Fl., IN' ular er'orma: announ, -i to l plis r in the - if thii 1t, kits - re P, a loce t- A W. Differ* nIth Mr. Has ed. "din0- ' 'In e I -a Ingto I r I nit in Th11" a ghing-lor -aei' under the head. " r hbi n- e M'. Hutchins Hapgooid a autho n i artih so manifeti , in urate n to say falilaviAnir. -hIt I rm ivns im to ans-er soie of the MNos gartg et;rternent. Mr lirilgood star, ou, h, coiupi rg "temperance-- s-1 . 1, 1ht ot 1. two opposit, .. If th'y have no em - niti will' -- h other, ani natura being a sPcIoem for the liquor ee of th e (.-stn on. he .'-i.e 'temt' ance" and rot bttterly vond.mnt :'prohibition ill 'say "TIhe cause of tlmperan-e is the cause of eivilizration. The c-aus f prohibition indwate ar Ltnder mo fanaticisnt wh-I I ne-er presert rn th'- most ernight-ed omniunir Let Is see 1 Most a! l; ge ifesvorg.r; echool tearcher educatov- i clapses ,irCe in fAvco, of'pioblhi-fl ' In this iss' a. "ia norant- alst S'rait, ftlr - mmstrt aA- vir favor if "ipr-o) Io - le -nhis e - an "ignorant' vies . Nearly all ph -ie-lana are 'r fi vor of "prollrhItio" iF tin, class an "ignoraut" class 4. Most of the hailer.. Innit v-f the owners of greet mranuf irit S , - dustrie, most of the rp'iioad ig natei. mo-t of the -oat ope ieit err are in favor of 'pro itbt - N-C theme cla-ses "isnorat ., Nearl 'l a arime, and -. ri-ing in imall towns nt la-, e. ni.. Cities of seatsof - er '':Hiet - are in fav- of "T-hibit m and r,-e thlse to bee iiesrd a. nr^ (On the ,the- hand, wi a-. tre' ui Sare oppoed to - hiir -- k - . bar keepiri a'e a posnd to I' ltion Thi- :g torant fi- crv *-is aenr al sar i'ipposid to I :.- 1t i. Ion t Iee the rid light d -'-I t'. thei pre:erves 'he dead rn , 'iet - - I .plums of I e, tteC, , - ull of Ipathirer r .t - fellows !tri H.a-rnd wSiodi haice . behleve "int 'gem Mr Ha-gotn say - he ,i a , iymubol of bt-i' gi-Od n.1 e lik 1 eietyib g vIse 1t t I, s ' Sp. italil :ike i . " Ii d-.ger .r. portion . tZ , is i 'ry To pr- de ti uen of -e rr tt iir t.I -hI--? prrnn Ii. -''- o-f a tire i r-pie the. , a 'i prob 1 .. i. i the gtoui r 1 1 : :: 'ft.n lead, 1 ti 'eat evil Thre l.&'uwiirt i-' , of "rutIe -1.'. -ft iv-e h eev ii uor av he ui it her. uhe iv1 n, -noi T, oppo, : in true NM' Havgood cirtanl kn I o that tic laws haie fo- genferat no hank trroteted the wielker s g r ine aih-i .. the str-nge lt V('tr ihmi 'mrohirhtonrertv- ' ope to - - with the "eak tel and wom"r n lunate -ek of heing the it' - v a st'iir o-f licens.ed Fa '-t- tirihat breed diut.atIds To mak . -'u: iln tration hu, ' . Nr HargipgoOd. o u l hv to ,, 1+ - houS e if vire anid se'! --r '. it i( It hour-i of Iin m ..rder trnaIke , ur n 'n "virtous -' 'crtain . if ola' - of driInk easy if a wrve mer - a, - frequient (tem and i iit nh ther. tI~r havre a tende-ncy to- matrie a cotimy -robier. tnen cet u, ' Ir th' Crvti' tlrr.g jutalittle furthe-- atndIt- lirne t'-e '. - - orts, and1 niot me~irrel-tlerte th.r'm -That Is where youirr trgumtesti wourld lead. andrrl et I dine ci. MI' Hlap'r'ed we-I moint enert-itallb I--tvst naamet ch~i a vrOndrition't being nahnet cd in ProhIbitlon and Lshuir Referam. Mr. Hapgoodl makes tire u:-arranted c-hanr tbat - 1IN 'i\r dI ar iabi re formt 'IThis is mroe soprm tut 'Tere Is np hasis of facti f' - ith- v-tate-tenrt The "dry. ' do beheie thait iv .rg' imeasur-e labor trojblese ca vused d' mi ik i' bor duoes n't getI a fair rsha-fits mid 10( rt 11 i ii omei( noi niea:- r gi-tting its full quota if iit-remairn drujnkv-n For its own prtcin laboer- should remain, sober. Make all Ithe labvormog mi-n intter oren and they wll sorr make thems li-ea free men, free -iv-tn from lihe aarki's of cruel industrialsm. -Mr. Hairgood i gisrai-ur eniught to the ''dry' element to adit that proihibitioni baa one redeeming riralltr-c-Ill i-cae tire reformuation of (hi- salcoon. Blut 'ts refotrmation hasi Cit yr too late: t oo muttnv boys have goin'- the broad and ruggerd ruad. It has strewn (- its black rath too man. human wr-.k, for its deathbedI reformation to iavail It of the just i-en geance a rrghteous God as to Inflict upon it. The lruOr apologist saya that priohl bitlon aeltation induces corruption Trust It has "drtnen" the hquor men into 'po tica" Pray tel-l us. Mr. Hapgood. thy one needs to be "-orrupt" simnply be cause he Is in 'poltcs? Pro0hIbiti lets do not corrupt the electorate and .why sho~uld thet iquor men?' Why n-vt fight us fairlyi The, Worklag Man's ('hmb. Y eir, the saloon is "a wor-kin;; marts oft a club cithi whih be beats out his t-t)NTINti'k' UN PAGL fVE\